>>Another SWAG, based on John's message:
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>I missed that message. Do you have the message ID?

It was Who really uses the VFPOleDB.1 provider? Thread #1158763 Message #1159145 , it just got me thinking about connection pooling.

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>>If IIS is pooling VFPOLEDB connections, is there some way you could turn that off, for test purposes?
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>This is the part that I really don't know much about. But, I didn't spend too much of thinking on it because the pooling mechanism is specific to Windows Server 2003 and I was able to simulate that on Windows Server 2000 and on Windows XP Pro.

Hmm, I thought IIS5 had DB connection pooling as well, but maybe not.

If cost is an object, maybe you could try MySQL - widely used, considered stable.